2 ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
3 http://ngircd.barton.de/
5 (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
6 ngIRCd is free software and published under the
7 terms of the GNU General Public License.
12 ngIRCd Release 18 (2011-07-10)
14 - Update timestamp of ngircd(8) manual page.
15 - Add preliminary ngIRCd protocol module for Anope 1.9 to contrib/Anope/.
16 - Don't register WHOWAS information when "MorePrivacy" option is in effect.
18 ngIRCd 18~rc2 (2011-06-29)
19 - Update documentation, fix some wording, and use a spellchecker :-)
20 - ngircd.conf.5: strip "SSL" prefix from variables in [SSL] section.
21 - ngircd.8: document debugging options.
22 - GnuTLS: use 1024 bits as minimum size of the DH prime. This enables
23 ngIRCd to accept incoming connections from other servers and clients
24 that "only" use at least 1024 bits again, like ngIRCd 17 did (and no
25 longer requires 2048 bits for incoming connections).
27 ngIRCd 18~rc1 (2011-06-27)
28 - PAM warning message: make clear which "Password" config option is ignored.
29 - New configuration option "MorePrivacy" to "censor" some user information.
30 When enabled, signon time and idle time is left out. Part and quit
31 messages are made to look the same. WHOWAS requests are silently dropped.
32 All of this is useful if one wish to conceal users that access the ngircd
33 servers from TOR or I2P.
34 - New configuration option "ScrubCTCP" to scrub incoming CTCP commands. If
35 activated, the server silently drops incoming CTCP requests from both
36 other servers and from users. The server that scrubs CTCP will not forward
37 the CTCP requests to other servers in the network either, which can spell
38 trouble if not every oper knows about the CTCP-scrubbing. Scrubbing CTCP
39 commands also means that it is not possible to send files between users.
40 There is one exception to the CTCP scrubbing performed: ACTION ("/me
41 commands") requests are not scrubbed.
42 - Display configuration errors more prominent on "--configtest".
43 - Restructure ngIRCd configuration file: introduce new [Limits], [Options],
44 and [SSL] sections. The intention of this restructuring is to make the
45 [Global] section much cleaner, so that it only contains variables that
46 most installations must adjust to the local requirements. All the optional
47 variables are moved to [Limits], for configurable limits and timers of
48 ngIRCd, and [Options], for optional features. All SSL-related variables
49 are moved to [SSL] and the "SSL"-prefix is stripped. The old variables in
50 the [Global] section are deprecated now, but are still recognized.
51 => Don't forget to check your configuration, use "ngircd --configtest"!
52 - New documentation "how to contribute": doc/Contributing.txt.
53 - Slightly fix error handling when connecting to remote servers.
54 - GnuTLS: bump DH-bitsize to 2048: this solves the problem that some clients
55 refuse to connect to severs that only offer 1024. For interoperability it
56 would be best to just use 4096 bits, but that takes minutes, even on
58 - contrib/platformtest.sh: fix gcc version detection.
59 - Avoid needlessly scary 'buffer overflow' messages: When the write buffer
60 space grows too large, ngIRCd has to disconnect the client to avoid
61 wasting too much memory, which is logged with a scary 'write buffer
62 overflow' message. Change this to a more descriptive wording.
63 - Require server prefixes for most commands on RFC2812 links. RFC1459 links
64 (often used by services, for example) are not affected.
65 - Mac OS X: update installer functionality, texts, and add our logo :-)
66 - New configuration option "RequireAuthPing": PING-PONG on login. When
67 enabled, this configuration option lets ngIRCd send a PING with an numeric
68 "token" to clients logging in; and it will not become registered in the
69 network until the client responds with the correct PONG.
70 - New configuration option "NoticeAuth": send NOTICE AUTH on connect. When
71 active, ngircd will send "NOTICE AUTH" messages on client connect time
72 like e.g. snircd (QuakeNet) does.
73 - Generate WALLOPS message on SQUIT from IRC operators; so SQUIT now behaves
74 like CONNECT and DISCONNECT commands, when called by an IRC operator.
75 - Allow servers to send more commands in the first 10 seconds ("burst"). This
76 helps to speed up server login and network synchronization.
77 - Add support for up to 3 targets in WHOIS queries, also allow up to one
78 wildcard query from local hosts. Follows ircd 2.10 implementation rather
79 than RFC 2812. At most 10 entries are returned per wildcard expansion.
80 - ngircd.conf(5) manual page: describe types of configuration variables
81 (booleans, text strings, integer numbers) and add type information to each
83 - Don't use "the.net" in sample-ngircd.conf, use "example.net".
84 - Terminate incoming connections on HTTP commands "GET" and "POST".
85 - New configuration option "CloakHost": when set, this hostname is used for
86 every client instead of the real DNS hostname (or IP address).
87 - New configuration option "CloakUserToNick": when enabled, ngIRCd sets
88 every clients' user name to their nick name and hides the user name
89 supplied by the IRC client.
90 - doc/Protocol.txt: Update description of the CHANINFO and WEBIRC commands.
91 - Doxygen'ify (document) much more source files; code cleanup ...
92 - Make write buffers bigger, but flush early. Before this change, a client
93 got disconnected if the buffer flushing at 4k failed, now regular clients
94 can store up to 32k and servers up 64k even if flushing is not possible at
95 the moment. This enhances reliability on slow links.
96 - Don't access possibly free'd CLIENT structure. Ooops.
97 - Allow "Port = 0" in [Server] blocks. Port number 0 marks remote servers
98 that try to connect to this daemon, but where this daemon never tries to
99 establish a connection on its own: only incoming connections are allowed.
100 - Configuration: fix 'Value of "..." is not a number!' for negative values.
101 - Enable WHOIS command to return information about services.
102 - Implement channel mode 'O': "IRC operators only". This channel mode is
103 used on DALnet (bahamut), for example.
104 - Remove support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration
105 including the "[No]ZeroConf" configuration option.
106 - TOPIC command: test for channel admin rights correctly: this enables other
107 servers, services and IRC operators to change channel topics, even when
108 the client is not joined to this channel.
109 - Deprecate NoXX-Options in ngircd.conf and move new variants into our new
110 [Options] section: 'NoDNS=no' => 'DNS=yes', 'NoIdent=no' => 'Ident=yes',
111 'NoPAM=no' => 'PAM=yes', and 'NoZeroConf=no' => 'ZeroConf=yes' (and
112 vice-versa). The defaults are adjusted accordingly and the old variables
113 in [Global] are still accepted, so there is no functional change.
114 - Fix confusing "adding to invite list" debug messages: adding entries to
115 ban list produced 'invite list' debug output ...
116 - Don't throttle services and servers being registered.
117 - Xcode: correctly sort files :-)
118 - Don't assert() when searching a client for an invalid server token (this is
119 only relevant when a trusted server on a server-server link sends invalid
122 ngIRCd Release 17.1 (2010-12-19)
124 - --configtest: remember if MOTD is configured by file or phrase
125 - Enhance log messages when establishing server links a little bit
126 - Reset ID of outgoing server link on DNS error correctly
127 - Don't log critical (or worse) messages to stderr
128 - Manual page ngircd(8): add SIGNALS section
129 - Manual pages: update and simplify AUTHORS section
130 - Remove "error file" when compiled with debug code enabled
131 - README: Updated list of implemented commands
132 - add doc/README-Interix.txt and doc/Bopm.txt to distribution tarball
133 - Merge branch 'numeric-329'
134 - add doc/PAM.txt to distribution tarball
135 - New numeric 329: get channel creation time on "MODE #chan" commands
136 - Save channel creation time; new function Channel_CreationTime()
138 ngIRCd Release 17 (2010-11-07)
140 - doc: change path names in sample-ngircd.conf depending on sysconfdir
141 - Fix up generation and distribution of sample-ngircd.conf
142 - contrib/ngircd-redhat.init: updated email address of Naoya Nakazawa
143 - contrib/platformtest.sh: make command name quoting consistent
145 ngIRCd 17~rc3 (2010-10-27)
146 - Xcode builds: detect version number correctly, updateed project file
147 to use the Mac OS X 10.5.x SDK, disable pam_fail_delay() because it
148 is only available starting with Mac OS X 10.6, and generate a default
149 PAM configuration for the Mac OS X Installer.app package of ngIRCd.
150 - Debian: updated standards version to 3.9.1, added libpam0g-dev to the
151 dependencies, and install a default /etc/pam.d/ngircd allowing all logins.
152 - Make contrib/platformtest.sh more portable.
153 - Fix connect attempts to further IP addresses of outgoing server links.
155 ngIRCd 17~rc2 (2010-10-25)
156 - ZeroConf: include header files missing since commit a988bbc86a.
157 - Generate ngIRCd version number from GIT tag.
158 - Make sourcecode compatible with ansi2knr again. This allows to compile
159 ngIRCd using a pre-ANSI K&R C compiler again.
160 - ./configure: check if C compiler can compile ISO Standard C.
161 - ./configure: check support for C prototypes again.
162 - Don't use PARAMS() macro for function implementations.
163 - Added m68k/apple/aux3.0.1 (gcc 2.7.2) to doc/Platforms.txt.
164 - Only try to set FD_CLOEXEC if this flag is defined.
165 - Only use "__attribute__ ((unused))" if GCC >=2.8 is used.
166 - doc/Makefile.am: don't set docdir, automake handles it already.
168 ngIRCd 17~rc1 (2010-10-11)
169 - New configuration option "NoZeroConf" to disable service registration at
170 runtime even if ngIRCd is compiled with support for ZeroConf (e.g. using
171 Howl, Avahi or on Mac OS X).
172 - New configuration option "SyslogFacility" to define the syslog "facility"
173 (the "target"), to which ngIRCd should send its log messages.
174 Possible values are system dependant, but most probably "auth", "daemon",
175 "user" and "local1" through "local7" are possible values; see syslog(3).
176 Default is "local5" for historical reasons.
177 - Dump the "internal server state" (configured servers, established
178 connections and known clients) to the console or syslog when receiving
179 the SIGUSR2 signal and debug mode is enabled.
180 - Enable the daemon to disable and enable "debug mode" on runtime using
181 signal SIGUSR1, when debug code is compiled in, not only on startup
182 using the command line parameters.
183 - Signal handler: added new 'delayed' signal handlers, including fallback
184 to deprecated sysv API. And removed global NGIRCd_SignalRehash variable.
185 - IO: add io_cloexec() to set close-on-exec flag.
186 - ng_ipaddr.h: include required assert.h header.
187 - Conn_SyncServerStruct(): test all connections; and work case insensitive
188 - configure script: correctly indent IPv6 yes/no summary output.
189 - Don't reset My_Connections[Idx].lastping when reading data, so the
190 client lag debug-output is working again.
191 - Implement user mode "x": hostname cloaking (closes: #102).
192 - Make configure switch "--docdir" work (closes: #108).
193 - Reformat and update FAQ.txt a little bit.
194 - INSTALL: mention SSL, IPv6, and changed handling of MotdFile.
195 - Change MOTD file handling: ngIRCd now caches the contens of the MOTD
196 file, so the daemon now requires a HUP signal or REHASH command to
197 re-read the MOTD file when its content changed.
198 - Startup: open /dev/null before chroot'ing the daemon.
199 - Allow IRC ops to change channel modes even without OperServerMode set.
200 - Allow IRC operators to use MODE command on any channel (closes: #100).
201 - Added mailmap file for git-[short]log and git-blame.
202 - Authenticated users should be registered without the "~" mark.
203 - Set NoPAM=yes in configuration files used for the testsuite.
204 - New configuration option "NoPAM" to disable PAM.
205 - Implement asynchronous user authentication using PAM, please see the
206 file doc/PAM.txt for details.
207 - Resolver: Implement signal handler and catch TERM signals.
208 - Don't set a penalty time when doing DNS lookups.
209 - Add some documentation for using BOPM with ngIRCd, see doc/Bopm.txt.
210 - Implement user mode "c": receive connect/disconnect NOTICEs. Note that
211 this new mode requires the user to be an IRC operator.
212 - ngircd.init: require "$network" and "$remote_fs" when stopping ngircd.
213 - Show SSL status in WHOIS output, numeric 275.
214 - Include correct header files when testing for arpa/inet.h (Closes: #105).
215 - Don't access already freed memory in IRC_KILL().
216 - Fix "beeing" typo ...
217 - SSL/TLS: fix bogus "socket closed" error message.
219 ngIRCd Release 16 (2010-05-02)
221 - doc/SSL: remove line continuation marker
223 ngIRCd 16~rc2 (2010-04-25)
224 - Updated some more copyright notices, it's 2010 already :-)
225 - Only compile in Get_Error() if really needed
226 - Fix gcc warning "ignoring return value of ..."
227 - Include netinet/in_systm.h alongside netinet/ip.h
228 - Include netinet/{in.h, in_systm.h} when checking for netinet/ip.h
229 - Only include <netinet/in_systm.h> if it exists
230 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt
231 - Enhace connection statistics counters: display total number of served
232 connections on daemon shutdown and when a new client connects using
233 the new numeric RPL_STATSCONN (250).
235 ngIRCd 16~rc1 (2010-03-25)
236 - Various fixes to the build system and code cleanups.
237 - contrib/platformtest.sh: Only show latest commit.
238 - Updatet doc/Platforms.txt, added new README-Interix.txt documenting
239 how to tun ngIRCd on Microsoft Services for UNIX (MS SFU, MS SUA).
240 - Updated links to the ngIRCd homepage (bug tracker, mailing list).
241 - Added missing modes to USERMODES #define
242 - Show our name (IRCD=ngIRCd) in ISUPPORT (005) numeric
243 - Quote received messages of ERROR commands in log output.
244 - ngircd.conf manual page: document missing "Password" variable.
245 - Implement WEBIRC command used by some Web-IRC frontends. The password
246 required to secure this command must be configured using the new
247 "WebircPassword" variable in the ngircd.conf file.
248 - Don't use port 6668 as example for both "Ports" and "SSLPorts".
249 - Remove limit on max number of configured irc operators.
250 - Only link "nsl" library when really needed.
251 - A new channel mode "secure connections only" (+z) has been implemented:
252 Only clients using a SSL encrypted connection to the server are allowed
253 to join such a channel.
254 But please note three things: a) already joined clients are not checked
255 when setting this mode, b) IRC operators are always allowed to join
256 every channel, and c) remote clients using a server not supporting this
257 mode are not checked either and therefore always allowed to join.
259 ngIRCd Release 15 (2009-11-07)
261 - "ngircd --configtest": print SSL configuration options even when unset.
263 ngIRCd 15~rc1 (2009-10-15)
264 - Do not add default listening port (6667) if SSL ports were specified, so
265 ngIRCd can be configured to only accept SSL-encrypted connections now.
266 - Enable IRC operators to use the IRC command SQUIT (insted of the already
267 implemented but non-standard DISCONNECT command).
268 - New configuration option "AllowRemoteOper" (disabled by default) that
269 enables remote IRC operators to use the IRC commands SQUIT and CONNECT
271 - Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile and use gcc 4.0
272 for Mac OS X 10.4 compatibility in the Xcode project file.
273 - Fix --with-{openssl|gnutls} to accept path names.
274 - Fix LSB header of Debian init script.
275 - Updated doc/Platforms.txt and include new script contrib/platformtest.sh
276 to ease generating platform reports.
277 - Fix connection information for already registered connections.
278 - Enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands. This implements
279 a throttling scheme: an IRC client can send up to 3 commands or 256 bytes
280 per second before a one second pause is enforced.
281 - Fix connection counter.
282 - Fix a few error handling glitches for SSL/TLS connections.
283 - Minor fixes to manual pages and documentation.
285 ngIRCd Release 14.1 (2009-05-05)
287 - Security: fix remotely triggerable crash in SSL/TLS code.
288 - BSD start script contrib/ngircd.sh has been renamed to ngircd-bsd.sh.
289 - New start/stop script for RedHat-based distributions:
290 contrib/ngircd-redhat.init, thanks to Naoya Nakazawa <naoya@sanow.net>.
291 - Doxygen: update source code repository link to GIT.
292 - Debian: build ngircd-full-dbg package.
293 - Allow ping timeout quit messages to show the timeout value.
294 - Fix error handling on compressed links.
295 - Fix server list announcement.
296 - Do not remove hostnames from info text.
298 ngIRCd Release 14 (2009-04-20)
300 - Display IPv6 addresses as "[<addr>]" when accepting connections.
302 ngIRCd 14~rc1 (2009-03-29)
303 - Updated Debian/Linux init script (see contrib/Debian/ngircd.init).
304 - Allow creation of persistent modeless channels.
305 - The INFO command reports the compile time now (if available).
306 - Spell check and enhance ngIRCd manual pages.
307 - Channel mode changes: break on syntax errors in MODE command.
308 - Support individual channel keys for pre-defined channels: introduce
309 new configuration variable "KeyFile" in [Channel] sections in ngircd.conf,
310 here a file can be configured for each pre-defined channel which contains
311 individual channel keys for different users.
312 - Remove limit on maximum number of predefined channels in ngircd.conf.
313 - Updated ngircd.spec file for building RPM packages.
314 - Add new and missing files to Mac OS X Xcode project, and update project.
315 - Reject masks with wildcard after last dot.
316 - TLS/SSL: remove useless error message when ssl connection is closed.
317 - Fix memory leak when a encrypted and compressed server link goes down.
318 (closes bug #95, reported by Christoph, fiesh@fiesh.homeip.net)
319 - Fix handling of channels containing dots.
320 (closes ug #93, reported by Gonosz Csiga)
322 ngIRCd Release 13 (2008-12-25)
324 - Updated documentation, especially doc/Services.txt and doc/SSL.txt.
325 - Make the test suite work on OpenSolaris.
327 ngIRCd 13~rc1 (2008-11-21):
328 - New version number scheme :-)
329 - Initial support for IRC services, using a RFC1459 style interface,
330 tested with IRCServices (http://www.ircservices.za.net/) version 5.1.13.
331 For this to work, ngIRCd now supports server-server links conforming
332 to RFC 1459. New ngircd.conf(5) option: ServiceMask.
333 - Support for SSL-encrypted server-server and client-server links using
334 OpenSSL (configure: --with-openssl) or GNUTLS (configure: --with-gnutls).
335 New ngircd.conf(5) options: SSLPorts, SSLKeyFile, SSLKeyFilePassword,
336 SSLCertFile, SSLDHFile, and SSLConnect.
337 - Server local channels have been implemented, prefix "&", that are only
338 visible to users of the same server and are not visible in the network.
339 In addition ngIRCd creates a "special" channel &SERVER on startup and logs
340 all the messages to it that a user with mode +s receives.
341 - New make target "osxpkg" to build a Mac OS X installer package.
342 - Debug mode: enable support for GNU libc memory tracing (see mtrace(3)).
343 - SysV init script: use LSB logging functions, if available.
344 - Added some more FAQ entries (regarding logging and IRC operators).
345 - Allow IRC operators to overwrite channel limits.
346 - Support for enhanced PRIVMSG and NOTICE message targets.
347 - More tests have been added to the test-suite ("make check"), and two
348 servers are started for testing server-server linking.
349 - Added a timestamp to log messages to the console.
350 - New configuration option "NoIdent" to disable IDENT lookups even if the
351 daemon is compiled with IDENT support.
353 ngIRCd 0.12.1 (2008-07-09)
355 - Allow mixed line terminations (CR+LF/CR/LF) in non-RFC-compliant mode
356 - Don't allow stray \r or \n in command parameters
357 - --configtest: return non-zero exit code if there are errors
358 - Update ngIRCd manual pages
359 - Add option aliases -V (for --version) and -h (for --help).
360 - Fix 'no-ipv6' compile error.
361 - Make Listen parameter a comma-separated list of addresses. This also
362 obsoletes ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options. If Listen is unset, it
363 is treated as Listen="::,0.0.0.0".
364 Note: ListenIPv4 and ListenIPv6 options are still recognized,
365 but ngircd will print a warning if they are used in the config file.
367 ngIRCd 0.12.0 (2008-05-13)
369 - Fix Bug: 85: "WHO #SecretChannel" that user is not a member of now returns
370 proper RPL_ENDOFWHO_MSG instead of nothing. (Ali Shemiran)
371 - Fix compile on FreeBSD 5.4 and AIX.
372 - If bind() fails, also print IP address and not just the port number.
374 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre2 (2008-04-29)
375 - IPv6: Add config options to disable ipv4/ipv6 support.
376 - Don't include doc/CVS.txt in distribution archive, use doc/GIT.txt now!
377 - Documentation: get rid of some more references to CVS, switch to GIT.
378 - Get rid of cvs-version.* and CVSDATE definition.
379 - Report ERR_NOTONCHANNEL when trying to part a channel one is not member of.
380 - Testsuite: remove erroneous ConfUID setting in config file.
382 ngIRCd 0.12.0-pre1 (2008-04-20)
383 - Include Mac OS X Xcode project in distribution archives.
384 - Do not exit on SIGHUP or /REHASH if the config file cannot opened.
386 - Install a LaunchDaemon script to start/stop ngIRCd on Mac OS X.
387 - Implemented IRC commands INFO, SUMMON (dummy), and USERS (dummy) and
388 enhanced test suite to check these commands. (Dana Dahlstrom)
389 - RPL_WHOREPLY messages generated by IRC_WHO didn't include flags (*,@,+).
391 - IRC_WHO now supports search patterns and will test this against user
392 nickname/servername/hostname, etc. as required by RFC 2812, Section 3.6.1.
393 (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
394 - Add test cases for "WHO" command. (Dana Dahlstrom)
395 - Implement RFC 2812 handling of "0" argument to 'JOIN': must be treated
396 as if the user had sent PART commands for all channels the user is a
397 member of. (Dana Dahlstrom)
398 - Allow NOTICEs to be sent to a channel. (Fabian Schlager)
400 ngIRCd 0.11.1 (2008-02-26)
402 - Fix sending of JOIN commands between servers when remote server appended
403 mode flags. (Rolf Eike Beer) [from HEAD]
404 - Send "G" instead of "H" flag in WHO replies. (reported by Dana Dahlstrom)
405 - Under some circumstances ngIRCd issued channel MODE message with a
406 trailing space. (Dana Dahlstrom) [from HEAD]
408 ngIRCd 0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
410 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre2 (2008-01-07)
411 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
412 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
414 ngIRCd 0.11.0-pre1 (2008-01-02)
415 - Use dotted-decimal IP address if hostname is >= 64.
416 - Add support for /STAT u (server uptime) command.
417 - New [Server] configuration Option "Bind" allows to specify
418 the source IP address to use when connecting to remote server.
419 - New configuration option "MaxNickLength" to specify the allowed maximum
420 length of user nick names. Note: must be unique in an IRC network!
421 - Enhanced the IRC+ protocol to support an enhanced "server handshake" and
422 enable server to recognize numeric 005 (ISUPPORT) and 376 (ENDOFMOTD).
423 See doc/Protocol.txt for details.
424 - Re-added doc/SSL.txt to distribution -- got lost somewhere!?
425 - Fixes the wrong logging output when nested servers are introduced
426 to the network as well as the wrong output of the LINKS command.
427 - Update Mac OS X Xcode project file for Xcode 3.
428 - Adjust test suite to be usable on HP/UX 11.11 :-)
429 - Fix code to compile using K&R C compiler and ansi2kr again.
430 - New config option NoDNS: Disables DNS lookups when clients connect.
431 - Fixed propagation of channel mode 'P' on server links.
432 - Numeric 317: implemented "signon time" (displayed in WHOIS result).
433 - Fixed code that prevented GCC 2.95 to compile ngIRCd.
434 - Adjust path names in manual pages according to "./configure" settings.
435 - Added new server configuration option "Passive" for "Server" blocks to
436 disable automatic outgoing connections (similar to -p option to ngircd,
437 but only for the specified server). (Tassilo Schweyer)
438 - Don't connect to a server if a connection to another server within the
439 same group is already in progress.
440 - Added support for the WALLOPS command. Usage is restricted to IRC
443 ngIRCd 0.10.4 (2008-01-07)
445 - SECURITY: IRC_PART could reference invalid memory, causing
446 ngircd to crash [from HEAD]. (CVE-2008-0285)
448 ngIRCd 0.10.3 (2007-08-01)
450 - SECURITY: Fixed a severe bug in handling JOIN commands, which could
451 cause the server to crash. Thanks to Sebastian Vesper, <net@veoson.net>.
454 ngIRCd 0.10.2 (2007-06-08)
456 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre2 (2007-05-19)
457 - Server links are allowed to use larger write buffers now (up to 50 KB).
459 ngIRCd 0.10.2-pre1 (2007-05-05)
460 - Fix compressed server links (broken since 0.10.0).
461 - Predefined Channel configuration now allows specification of channel key
462 (mode k) and maximum user count (mode l).
463 - When using epoll() IO interface, compile in the select() interface as
464 well and fall back to it when epoll() isn't available on runtime.
465 - New configure option "--without-select" to disable select() IO API
466 (even when using epoll(), see above).
467 - Added support for IO APIs "poll()" and "/dev/poll".
468 - Reorganized internal handling of invite and ban lists.
470 ngIRCd 0.10.1 (2006-12-17)
472 - Fixed validation of server names containing digits.
473 - Update the "info text" of the local server after re-reading configuration.
474 - Changed Numerics 265 and 266 to follow ircd 2.11.x "standards".
475 - Allow PASS syntax defined in RFC 1459 for server links, too.
476 - Enhanced ISUPPORT message (005 numeric).
477 - New configuration option "PredefChannelsOnly": if set, clients can only
478 join predefined channels.
479 - Code cleanups: use "LogDebug(...)" instead of "Log(LOG_DEBUG, ...)", use
480 "strcspn()", unsigned vs. signed, use "const", fix whitespaces, ...
482 ngIRCd 0.10.0 (2006-10-01)
484 - Fixed file handle leak when daemon is not able to send MOTD to a client.
486 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre2 (2006-09-09)
487 - Fixed build problems with GCC option -fstack-protector.
488 - Minor documentation updates.
490 ngIRCd 0.10.0-pre1 (2006-08-02)
491 - Validate "ServerName" (see RFC 2812, section 2.3.1).
492 - Enhanced DIE to accept a single parameter ("comment text") which is sent
493 to all locally connected clients before the server goes down.
494 - The ngIRCd handles time shifts backwards more gracefully now (the
495 timeout handling doesn't disconnect clients by mistake any more).
496 - Internal: Restructured connection handling (the connection ID is equal
497 to the file descriptor of the connection).
498 - Internal: Simplified resolver code.
499 - JOIN now supports more than one channel key at a time.
500 - Implemented numeric "333": Time and user name who set a channel topic.
501 - Enhanced the handler for PING and PONG commands: fix forwarding and enable
502 back-passing of a client supplied additional argument of PING.
503 - Changed handling of timeouts for unregistered connections: don't reset
504 the counter if data is received and disconnect clients earlier.
505 - Removed unnecessary #define of "LOCAL", now use plain C "static" instead.
506 - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
507 is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in practice, this
508 limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).
509 - Reverse DNS lookup code now checks the result by doing an additional
510 lookup to prevent spoofing.
511 - Added new IO layer which (optionally) supports epoll() and kqueue() in
512 addition to the select() interface.
514 ngIRCd 0.9.2 (2005-10-15)
516 - Fixed a bug that could cause the daemon to crash when outgoing server
517 connections can't be established.
518 - Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to leak file descriptors when no
519 resolver subprocesses could be created.
520 - Fixed server NOTICEs to users with "s" mode ("server messages").
521 - Fixed a format string bug in "connection statistics" messages to clients.
523 ngIRCd 0.9.1 (2005-08-03)
525 - The KILL command killed much more than desired (including server links!)
526 when the target user is connected to a remote server. Bug introduced in
527 ngIRCd 0.9.0 ... Reported by <qssl@fastmail.fm>, Thanks!
528 - Changed some constants to be "signed" (instead of unsigned) to solve
529 problems with old (pre-ANSI) compilers.
531 ngIRCd 0.9.0 (2005-07-24)
533 ngIRCd 0.9.0-pre1 (2005-07-09)
534 - Fixed maximum length of user names, now allow up to 9 characters.
535 - Cut off oversized IRC messages that should be sent to the network instead
536 of shutting down the (wrong) connection.
537 - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the
538 client is registered with the server (like the original ircd).
539 - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID.
540 - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant.
541 - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client
542 is member of multiple channels.
543 - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and
544 pray that this will be "the right thing" ...
545 - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS".
546 - Don't enable assert() calls when not ./configure'd with --enable-debug.
547 - Fixed ./configure test for TCP Wrappers: now it runs on Mac OS X as well.
548 - Enhanced configure script: now you can pass an (optional) search path
549 to all --with-XXX parameters, e. g. "--with-ident=/opt/ident".
550 - Removed typedefs for the native C datatypes.
551 Use stdbool.h / inttypes.h if available.
552 - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed
553 when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled
554 to prevent the ircd2 daemon to drop mode changes of IRC operators.
555 Patch by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
556 - Implemented support for "secret channels" (channel mode "s").
557 - New configuration option "Mask" for [Operator] sections to limit OPER
558 commands to users with a specific IRC mask. Patch from Florian Westphal.
559 - Write "error file" (/tmp/ngircd-XXX.err) only if compiled with debug
560 code ("--enable-debug") and running as daemon process.
561 - Don't create version information string each time a client connects
562 but instead on server startup. By Florian Westphal.
563 - New configuration variable "PidFile", section "[Global]": if defined,
564 the server writes its process ID (PID) to this file. Default: off.
565 Idea of Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
566 - Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
567 - Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
568 - Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
569 failed. Now we don't fall back to malloc(), which should be sane anyway.
570 Patch from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
571 - Added support for the Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
572 Rendezvous API, in addition to the API of Apple (Mac OS X). The available
573 API will be autodetected when you call "./configure --with-rendezvous".
574 - Made ngIRCd compile on HP/UX 10.20 with native HP pre-ANSI C compiler and
575 most probably other older C compilers on other systems.
576 - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in
577 the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it
578 changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This
579 should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
582 ngIRCd 0.8.3 (2005-02-03)
584 - Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
585 to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
586 <coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
587 (CVE-2005-0226; http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
589 ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
591 - Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
592 - Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
593 by Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>. (CVE-2005-0199)
594 - Fixed a possible buffer underrun when reading the MOTD file. Thanks
595 to Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
596 - Fixed detection of IRC lines which are too long to send. Detected by
597 Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
598 - Fixed return values of our own implementation of strlcpy(). The code has
599 been taken from rsync and they fixed it, but we didn't until today :-/
600 It has only been used when the system didn't implement strlcpy by itself,
601 not on "modern" systems. Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
603 ngIRCd 0.8.1 (2004-12-25)
605 - Autoconf: Updated config.guess and config.sub
606 - Added some more debug code ...
607 - Fixed wrong variable names in output of "ngircd --configtest".
608 - Debian: Fixed the name of the "default file" in the init script for
609 ngircd-full packages. And do the test if the binary is executable after
611 - Enhanced the "test suite": please have a look at src/testsuite/README!
613 ngIRCd 0.8.0 (2004-06-26)
615 - Fixed wrong buffer size calculation for results of the resolver.
617 ngircd 0.8.0-pre2 (2004-05-16)
618 - Enhanced logging to console when running in "no-detached mode": added
619 PID and log messages of resolver sub-processes.
620 - Fixed host name lookups when using IDENT user lookups.
621 - "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean" remove more files now.
623 ngIRCd 0.8.0-pre1 (2004-05-07)
624 - Two new configuration options: "ChrootDir" and "MotdPhrase", thanks to
625 Benjamin Pineau <ben@zouh.org>. Now you can force the daemon to change
626 its root and working directory to something "safe". MotdPhrase is used
627 to define an "MOTD string" instead of a whole file, useful if the
628 "real" MOTD file would be outside the "jail".
629 - INVITE- and BAN-lists become synchronized between IRC+ servers when
630 establishing new connections, if the peer supports this as well.
631 - Reorganized autogen.sh and configure scripts.
632 - Fixed a wrong assert() which could cause the daemon to exit spuriously
633 when closing down connections.
634 - Better logging of decompression errors returned by zlib.
635 - Servers other than the destination server didn't clean up the invite
636 list of an "invite-only" channel properly when an INVITE'd user joined.
637 - Changed the reply of the MODE command to match the syntax of the
638 original ircd exactly: the unnecessary but missing ":" before the last
639 parameter has been added.
640 - Fixed TRACE: don't output "Serv" lines for ourself; display more info.
641 - Results of the resolver (hostnames and IDENT names) are discarded after
642 the client is successfully registered with the server.
643 - Better logging while establishing and shutting down connections.
644 - The type of service (TOS) of all sockets is set to "interactive" now.
645 - Added short command line option "-t" as alternative to "--configtest".
646 - Added optional support for "IDENT" lookups on incoming connections. You
647 have to enable this function with the ./configure switch "--with-ident".
648 The default is not to do IDENT lookups.
650 ngIRCd 0.7.7 (2004-02-05)
652 - The info text ("real name") of users is set to "-" if none has been
653 specified using the USER command (e. g. "USER user * * :"). Reason:
654 the original ircd doesn't like empty ones and would KILL such users.
655 - Fixed (optional) TCP Wrapper test which was broken and could result in
656 false results. Thanks to Fuminori Tanizaki <tany@mcnet.ad.jp>!
657 - Removed "USE_" prefixes of configuration #defines.
659 ngIRCd 0.7.6 (2003-12-05)
661 - Fixed abort() ("server crash") when INVITE'ing users to nonexistent
662 channels. Bug found by <hiddenx@wp.pl>.
663 - Extended version numbering of CVS versions (added date).
664 - Enhanced/fixed doc/Protocol.txt;
666 ngIRCd 0.7.5 (2003-11-07)
668 - Fixed ban behavior: users which are banned from a channel can't no
669 longer send PRIVMSG's to this channel (fixes Bug #47).
670 - Fixed and enhanced the "penalty handling" of the server: commands that
671 require more resources block the client for a short time.
672 - Changed the internal time resolution to one second.
673 - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
674 simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
675 This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
676 (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
677 - Fixed build problems under Mac OS X 10.3.
678 - Use "-pipe" when compiling with gcc, speeds things up a little :-)
679 - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
680 sockets of the server to a single IP address.
681 - Suppress misleading error message of diff during make run.
682 - Enhanced test-suite and made it work on GNU/Hurd.
683 - Fixed minor typo in debug output :-)
685 ngIRCd 0.7.1 (2003-07-18)
687 - Included files to build Debian packages (located in "debian/").
688 - Updated config.guess and config.sub to newer upstream versions.
689 - NJOIN propagates user channel modes correctly again ... Upsa.
690 - Made Makefile more compatible with "make -j<n>".
691 - Added support for GNU/Hurd.
692 - Fixed a compiler warning related to an unnecessary assert().
693 - Enhanced VERSION command when using debug versions.
695 ngIRCd 0.7.0 (2003-05-01)
697 - "ServerName" is checked better now: a dot (".") is required.
698 - The KILL command verifies and logs more parameters.
700 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre2 (2003-04-27)
701 - CVS build system fixes (made autogen.sh more portable).
702 - Fixed compilation and test-suite on Solaris (tested with 2.6).
703 - New documentation file "doc/Platforms.txt" describing the status of
704 ngIRCd on the various tested platforms.
705 - Test for broken GCC on Mac OS X and disable "-pedantic" in this case.
706 - Disable "-ansi" on Cygwin: system headers are incompatible.
707 - The server tried to connect to other servers only once when DNS or
708 socket failures occurred.
709 - Fixed --configtest: There is no variable "ServerPwd", it's "Password".
711 ngIRCd 0.7.0-pre1 (2003-04-22)
712 - New signal handler (more secure, actions are executed outside).
713 - GCC: the compiler is now called with more warning options enabled.
714 - Replaced a lot of str[n]cpy(), str[n]cat() and sprintf() calls with the
715 more secure functions strlcpy(), strlcat() and snprintf(). On systems
716 that don't support strlcpy() and strlcat(), these functions are included
717 in the libngportab now (with prototypes in portab.h).
718 - If the server can't close a socket, it panics now. This is an error that
719 can't occur during normal operation so there is something broken.
720 - The order of log messages during disconnects is more "natural" now ;-)
721 - Cleaned up handling of server configuration structures: modifying and
722 removing servers during runtime works more reliable now.
723 - Compression code from "conn.[ch]" is now found in new "conn-zip.[ch]"
724 - Moved some connection functions from "conn.[ch]" to "conn-func.[ch]".
725 - New command CONNECT to enable and add server links. The syntax is not
726 RFC-compatible: use "CONNECT <name> <port>" to enable and connect an
727 configured server and "CONNECT <name> <port> <host> <mypwd> <peerpwd>"
728 to add a new server (ngIRCd tries to connect new servers only once!).
729 - Added DISCONNECT command ("DISCONNECT <name>") to disable servers.
730 - Restructured the documentation: Now the main language is English. The
731 german documentation has been removed (until there is a maintainer).
732 - Enhanced killing of users caused by a nickname collision.
733 - Better error detection for status code ("numerics") forwarding.
734 - Moved tool functions to own library: "libngtool".
735 - New command TRACE (you can trace only servers at the moment).
736 - New command HELP that lists all understood commands.
737 - There should no longer remain "unknown connections" (see e.g. LUSERS)
738 if an outgoing server link can't be established.
739 - Added AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in for better autoconf compatibility.
740 - Conn_Close() now handles recursive calls for the same link correctly.
741 - ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the
742 new switch "--with-rendezvous" to configure.
743 - Added support for TCP Wrappers library: pass "--with-tcp-wrappers" to
744 configure to enable it.
745 - Changed some configure options to use "--with"/"--without" as prefix
746 instead of "--enable"/"--disable": "--without-syslog", "--without-zlib",
747 "--with-tcp-wrappers", and "--with-rendezvous".
748 - Better error reporting to clients on connect.
749 - Enhanced manual pages ngircd(8) and ngircd.conf(5).
750 - Documentation is now installed in $(datadir)/doc/ngircd.
751 - Enhanced handling of NJOIN in case of nick collisions.
753 ngIRCd 0.6.1, 2003-01-21
755 - Fixed KILL: you can't crash the server by killing yourself any more,
756 ngIRCd no longer sends a QUIT to other servers after the KILL, and you
757 can kill only valid users now.
758 - The server no longer forwards commands to ordinary users, instead it
759 answers with the correct error message ("no such server") now.
760 - WHOIS commands weren't always forwarded as requested.
761 - The server sets a correct default AWAY message now when propagating
762 between servers (bug introduced in 0.6.0).
763 - Fixed up and enhanced CHANINFO command: channel keys and user limits
764 are synchronized between servers now, too.
765 - MODE returns the key and user limit for channel members correctly now.
766 - Non-members of a channel could crash the server when trying to change
767 its modes or modes of its members.
768 - The server didn't validate weather a target user is a valid channel
769 member when changing his channel user modes which could crash ngIRCd.
772 Older changes (sorry, only available in german language):
774 ngIRCd 0.6.0, 2002-12-24
776 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre2, 2002-12-23
777 - neuer Numeric 005 ("Features") beim Connect.
778 - LUSERS erweitert: nun wird die maximale Anzahl der lokalen und globalen
779 Clients, die dem Server bzw. im Netzwerk seit dem letzten (Re-)Start
780 dem Server gleichzeitig bekannt waren, angezeigt.
782 ngIRCd 0.6.0-pre1, 2002-12-18
783 - beim Schliessen einer Verbindung zeigt der Server nun vor dem ERROR
784 noch eine Statistik ueber die empfangene und gesendete Datenmenge an.
785 - der Server wartet bei einer eingehenden Verbindung nun laenger auf den
786 Resolver (4 Sekunden), wenn das Ergebnis eintrifft setzt er aber den
787 Login sofort fort (bisher wurde immer mind. 1 Sekunde gewartet).
788 - Connection-Strukturen werden nun "pool-weise" verwaltet; der Pool wird
789 bei Bedarf bis zu einem konfigurierten Limit vergroessert.
790 - Mit der neuen Konfigurationsvariable "MaxConnections" (Sektion "Global")
791 kann die maximale Anzahl gleichzeitiger Verbindungen begrenzt werden.
792 Der Default ist -1, "unlimitiert".
793 - der Server erkennt nun, ob bereits eine eingehende Verbindung von einem
794 Peer-Server besteht und versucht dann nicht mehr, selber eine eigene
795 ausgehende Verbindung zu diesem auufzubauen. Dadurch kann nun auf beiden
796 Servern in der Konfiguration ein Port fuer den Connect konfiguriert
797 werden (beide Server versuchen sich dann gegenseitig zu connectieren).
798 - Test-Suite und Dokumentation an A/UX angepasst.
799 - unter HP-UX definiert das configure-Script nun _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
800 - Server identifizieren sich nun mit asyncronen Passwoertern, d.h. das
801 Passwort, welches A an B schickt, kann ein anderes sein als das, welches
802 B als Antwort an A sendet. In der Konfig.-Datei, Abschnitt "Server",
803 wurde "Password" dazu durch "MyPassword" und "PeerPassword" ersetzt.
804 - Der Server kann nun zur Laufzeit die Konfiguration neu einlesen: dies
805 macht er nach dem Befehl REHASH oder wenn ein HUP-Signal empfangen wird.
806 - Channel-Mode "P" ("persistent") kann nur noch von IRC-Operatoren gesetzt
807 werden. Grund: User koennen den Server sonst leicht "Channel-Flooden".
808 - MOTD kann nun an andere Server geforwarded werden.
809 - IRC-Befehl "TIME" implementiert.
810 - Server-Server-Links koennen nun komprimiert werden, dazu wird die zlib
811 (www.zlib.org) benoetigt. Unterstuetzt die Gegenseite die Komprimierung
812 nicht, wird automatisch unkomprimiert kommuniziert. Das Verfahren ist
813 kompatibel mit dem Original-ircd 2.10.3, d.h. beide Server koennen
814 miteinander ueber komprimiert Links kommunizieren.
815 - Handling der Schreibpuffer umgestellt: Server sollte schneller arbeiten.
816 - Prefix-Fehler werden besser protokolliert (mit verursachendem Befehl).
817 - SQUIT wird nicht mehr doppelt an andere Server weitergeleitet.
818 - Der Server versucht nun vor dem Schliessen einer Verbindung Daten, die
819 noch im Schreibpuffer stehen, zu senden.
820 - Source in weiteres Modul "irc-info" aufgespalten.
821 - Konfigurationsvariablen werden besser validiert: Laengen, Zahlen, ...
822 - neuen Befehl STATS begonnen: bisher unterstuetzt wird "l" und "m".
823 - bei ISON und USERHOST fehlte im Ergebnis-String der korrekte Absender.
824 - IRC Operatoren koennen nun mit KILL User toeten. Achtung: ein Grund muss
825 zwingend als zweiter Parameter angegeben werden!
826 - neue Konfigurations-Variable "MaxJoins": Hiermit kann die maximale Zahl
827 der Channels, in denen ein User Mitglied sein kann, begrent werden.
828 - neuer, deutlich flexiblerer Parser fuer den MODE Befehl.
829 - neue Channel-Modes l (User-Limit) und k (Channel-Key) implementiert.
831 ngIRCd 0.5.4, 24.11.2002
833 - Fehler-Handling von connect() gefixed: der Server kann sich nun auch
834 unter A/UX wieder zu anderen verbinden.
835 - in den Konfigurationsvariablen ServerUID und ServerGID kann nun nicht
836 nur die numerische ID, sondern auch der Name des Users bzw. der Gruppe
837 verwendet werden. Beim Start des Daemons wird nun beides angezeigt.
838 - Besseres Logging von Prefix-Fehlern.
839 - angenommene Sockets werden nun korrekt auf "non-blocking" konfiguriert,
840 beim Senden und Empfangen werden Blockierungen besser abgefangen.
841 - RPL_UMODEIS hat Code 221, nicht 211 ... *argl*
842 - select() in Try_Write() hat falschen (keinen!) Timeout verwendet;
843 die "Zeit-Aufloesung" des Servers sind zudem nun 2 Sekunden (TIME_RES).
844 Insgesamt sollte die Reaktionszeit des Server nun besser sein.
846 ngIRCd 0.5.3, 08.11.2002
848 - NOTICE liefert nun wirklich nie mehr einen Fehler, auch dann nicht,
849 wenn der sendende Client noch gar nicht registriert ist.
850 - ein "schneller Server-Reconnect" wird nur noch dann versucht, wenn die
851 Verbindung zuvor ordentlich (="lange genug") in Ordnung war; somit also
852 nicht meht, wenn der Peer-Server gleich beim Connect ein ERROR liefert.
853 Das vermeidet "Connect-Orgien".
854 - einige Datentypen aufgeraumt: z.B. sind viele INT32s nun LONGs. Das ist
855 auf Platformen mit 8-Byte-Integern kompatibler.
856 - RPL_YOURHOST_MSG ist nun ircII- und RFC-kompatibel ;-)
857 - Segfault unter hoher Netzaktivitaet behoben: in Conn_Close() wird die
858 Connection-Struktur nun frueher als "ungueltig" markiert.
860 ngIRCd 0.5.2, 04.10.2002
862 - Buffer Overflow in Read_Resolver_Result() behoben.
863 - Format-String-Bugs, die zum Abbruch des Servers fuehrten, behoben.
864 - Maximale Laenge eines IRC-Prefix wurde falsch berechnet.
866 ngIRCd 0.5.1, 03.10.2002
868 - in RPL_YOURHOST_MSG wurde ein fehlerhafter Versionsstring geliefert.
869 - Test-Suite: start-server.sh, stop-server.sh und stress-server.sh koennen
870 nun "manuell" von der Kommandozeile gestartet werden, stress-server.sh
871 startet per Default nur noch 5 Sessions, eine andere Zahl kann auf der
872 Kommandozeile uebergeben werden (Syntax: "stress-server.sh <count>").
873 - In bestimmten Faellen hat der Server versucht auf einen bereits wieder
874 geschlossenen Socket Daten zu schreiben; das fuehrte zu einem Abbruch des
875 Servers durch ein assert(). Nun wird geprueft, ob der Socket noch ok ist.
876 - im "contrib"-Verzeichnis befindet sich nun eine RPM-Spec-Datei, aus den
877 .tar.gz's koennen nun mit "rpm -ta <archiv>" RPM's erzeugt werden. Danke
878 an Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>!
879 - Syntax von RPL_MYINFO_MSG korrigiert: liefert nun vier Parameter.
881 ngIRCd 0.5.0, 20.09.2002
883 - Dokumentation aktualisiert.
884 - Fehler bei Validierung von "AdminInfo2" behoben.
885 - Test der Flags fuer "ps" in der Testsuite verbessert, ist nun zu mehr
886 Plattformen kompatibler.
888 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre2, 17.09.2002
889 - Fix in IRC_WriteStrServersPrefix() war "badly broken" -- behoben.
891 ngIRCd 0.5.0-pre1, 16.09.2002
892 - Manual-Pages ngircd.8 und ngircd.conf.5 begonnen.
893 - Wird der Netzwerk-Sniffer aktiviert (--sniffer), so schaltet der
894 ngIRCd nun automatisch in den Debug-Modus.
895 - auf Systemen, die inet_aton() nicht kennen (wie z.B. A/UX), kann der
896 ngIRCd nun dennoch auch aktiv Server-Links aufbauen.
897 - h_errno wird auf Systemen, die das nicht kennen (wie z.B. HP-UX 10.20)
898 nicht mehr verwendet. Somit compiliert der ngIRCd nun auch dort :-)
899 - um auf dem Ziel-System nicht vorhandene Funktionen nachzubilden wird nun
900 die "libngportab" erzeugt; genutzt wird dies bisher fuer vsnprintf().
901 Nun compiliert der ngIRCd auch unter Solaris 2.5.1.
902 - "persistente Channels" (Mode 'P') implementiert: diese koennen in der
903 Konfigurationsdatei definiert werden (Sektion "Channel", vgl. Beispiel-
904 Konfiguration "sample-ngircd.conf") und bleiben auch dann bestehen,
905 wenn kein User mehr im Channel ist. Zu Channel-Operatoren werden bisher
906 nur IRC-Operatoren, die den Channel betreten. Die persistenten Channels
907 werden durch das Flag "P" gelennzeichnet, welches normal durch Channel-
908 Op's gesetzt und geloescht werden kann.
909 - bei "--configtest" werden keine leere Abschnitte mehr ausgegeben.
910 - Source in weitere Module aufgespalten: lists, irc-op und resolve.
911 - #include's aufgeraeumt: Header includieren keine anderen mehr.
912 - KICK implementiert (bisher kann nur ein User aus einem Channel geckicked
913 werden, Listen, wir im RFC vorgesehen, werden bisher nicht unterstuetzt).
914 - INVITE, den Channel-Mode "i" sowie Invite-Lists ueber den MODE-Befehl
915 (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
916 - Source an ansi2knr fuer pre-ANSI-Compiler angepasst; ansi2knr in Source-
917 Tree aufgenommen und in Build-System integriert; der ngIRCd compiliert
918 nun z.B. unter A/UX mit dem nativen Compiler von Apple.
919 - TOPIC lieferte bei unbekanntem Channel einen falschen Fehlercode.
920 - LIST versteht nun Wildcards und kann an andere Server geforwarded werden.
921 - wurde ein KILL fuer nicht-lokale Clients empfangen, so wurden die
922 Verwaltungs-Strukturen nicht korrekt freigegeben.
923 - empfangene NJOIN's wurden "zerhackt" an andere Server weitergegeben.
924 - neue Konfigurationsoption "OperCanUseMode" (Sektion "Global"):
925 ist sie aktiv, koennen IRC-Operatoren immer Channel-Modes setzen.
926 - Dokumentation des neuen IRC+-Protokolls begonnen: doc/Protocol.txt
927 - Protokoll- und Server-ID bei PASS-Befehlen auf neues Format umgestellt;
928 bei empfangenen PASS-Befehlen werden diese zudem nun auch ausgewertet.
929 Die unterstuetzten Flags sind in doc/Protocol.txt beschrieben.
930 - mit dem neuen Befehl CHANINFO syncronisieren Server, die das IRC+-
931 Protokoll unterstuetzen, Channel-Modes und Topics.
932 - neue Option "--disable-ircplus" fuer das configure-Script, um das
933 IRC+-Protokoll abzuschalten (per Default ist es aktiviert).
934 - Ban-Lists (setzen, erfragen und loeschen) implementiert.
935 - wird der Server mit "-n"/"--nodaemon" gestartet, so werden keine Mel-
936 dungen mehr ueber Syslog ausgegeben, sondern nur noch auf der Konsole.
937 - "Test-Suite" begonnen (in "make check" integriert): Dabei wird ein
938 speziell konfigurierter Server auf Port 6789 gestartet, mit dem dann
939 einige Tests durchgefuehrt werden (u.a. "Stress-Test" mit 50 Clients).
940 - zu lange Operator-Namen in der Konfiguration wurden falsch gekuerzt.
941 - kleine Anpassung an AIX 3.2.5: nun laeuft der ngIRCd auch dort :-)
942 - ADMIN-Befehl implementiert. Die Daten hierzu werden in der Konfig-Datei
943 im [Global]-Abschnitt mit den Variablen "AdminInfo1", "AdminInfo2" und
944 "AdminEMail" konfiguriert.
946 ngIRCd 0.4.3, 11.06.2002
948 - Bei PRIVMSG und NOTICE hat der ngIRCd nicht ueberpruft, ob das Ziel
949 ueberhaupt ein User ist. War es keiner, so fuehrte dies zu einem
950 Abbruch des Servers [es wurde assert() aufgerufen].
952 ngIRCd 0.4.2, 29.04.2002
954 - LUSERS verzaehlt sich bei eigenen Server-Links nicht mehr.
955 - QUIT wird nun auch von noch nicht registrierten Clients akzeptiert.
956 - IRC-Funktion LIST implementiert; bisher werden allerdings noch keine
957 Wildcards (bis auf "*") unterstuetzt.
959 ngIRCd 0.4.1, 08.04.2002
961 - Bei Server-Links wird nicht mehr an Hand der Anzahl der Parameter
962 eines empfangenen SERVER-Befehls, sondern "intern" erkannt, ob es
963 sich um eine ein- oder ausgehende Verbindung handelt und somit das
964 eigene PASS-SERVER-Paar gesendet werden muss oder nicht. Da sich
965 verschiedene Versionen des Original-ircd's anders verhalten, schlug
966 die Anmeldung je nach Gehenseite evtl. fehl.
967 - Bei einem NICK-Befehl eines lokalen Client konnte der Server ab-
968 stuerzen, da ein Format-String einer Log-Meldung fehlerhaft war.
970 ngIRCd 0.4.0, 01.04.2002
972 - IRC-Befehle nochmal auf weitere Source-Dateien aufgespalten.
973 - WHO implementiert (bisher ohne komplette Unterstuetzung von Masks).
974 - Der AWAY-Mode wurde nicht ueber mehrere Server-Links weitergegeben.
975 - stderr wird nun in eine Datei umgelenkt (/tmp/ngircd-<PID>.err).
976 Laeuft der Server nicht im Debug-Modus, so wird diese bei Programm-
977 ende geloescht. Sollte der Server abstuerzen, finden sich hier evtl.
978 zusaetzliche Informationen.
979 - In Nicknames wird das Zeichen "-" nun als zulaessig erkannt.
980 - die Beispiel-Konfigurationsdatei (doc/sample-ngircd.conf) wird als
981 ngircd.conf installiert, wenn noch keine "echte" Konfigurationsdatei
983 - bei WHO, WHOIS und NAMES wird nun nur noch der Status "Operator" oder
984 "voiced" geliefert -- nicht mehr beides.
985 - Server-Gruppen implementiert: es wird immer nur zu einem Server in
986 einer Gruppe eine Verbindung aufgebaut, klappt es beim ersten Server
987 nicht, so wird der naechste probiert (Variable "Group" in der Kon-
988 figurationsdatei, Sektion [Server]).
989 - IRC_PING() ist, wenn nicht im "strict RFC"-Mode, toleranter und ak-
990 zeptiert beliebig viele Parameter (z.B. BitchX sendet soetwas).
991 - die "Portab-Header" werden nicht mehr benoetigt, die System-Erkennung
992 wird nun ausschliesslich vom configure-Script durchgefuehrt. System-
993 abhaengige Definitionen finden sich nun unter src/portrab/.
994 - Clients und Channels werden nicht mehr ueber ihren Namen, sondern
995 einen Hash-Wert gesucht: sollte deutlich schneller sein.
996 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--configtest": die Konfiguration wird
997 gelesen und dann die verwendeten Werte angezeigt.
998 - Client-Mode "s" (Server Notices) implementiert.
999 - mit dem neuen Kommandozeilen-Parameter "--config"/"-f" kann eine
1000 alternative Konfigurationsdatei angegeben werden.
1001 - nach dem Start kann der ngIRCd, wenn er mit root-Rechten laeuft,
1002 zu einer anderen User-ID und Group-ID wechseln.
1003 - URL der Homepage wird u.a. bei "--version" mit angezeigt.
1005 ngIRCd 0.3.0, 02.03.2002
1007 - bekommt der Server ein HUP-Signal, so startet er neu -- genau so, wie
1008 er auf den IRC-Befehl RESTART reagiert.
1009 - FAQ um Hinweise auf den Bugtracker erweitert.
1010 - neuer Kommandozeilen-Schalter "--passive" (-p): wird er angegeben, so
1011 verbindet sich der ngIRCd nicht mehr automatisch zu anderen Servern.
1012 Zum Debuggen manchmal ganz praktisch :-)
1013 - direkt nach dem Start schreibt der ngIRCd nun die aktiven Kommando-
1014 zeilenschalter in's Logfile (Passive, Debug, Sniffer ...).
1015 - das Signal-Flag SA_RESTART wird nur noch gesetzt, wenn es auf dem
1016 jeweiligen System auch definiert ist.
1017 - bei ausgehenden Verbindungen wird nun der Ziel-Port protokolliert.
1018 - neue Befehle VERSION und KILL implementiert.
1019 - make-Target "check" (und "distcheck") mit Sinn erfuellt :-)
1020 (die Tests sind aber bisher nicht all zu tiefgehend ...)
1021 - Durch einen Ueberlauf konnte die Idle-Time bei WHOIS negativ werden ...
1022 - Anpassungen an A/UX: gehoert nun auch zu den unterstuetzten Platformen.
1023 - WHOIS wird nicht mehr automatisch an den "Original-Server" weiterge-
1024 leitet: war eh nicht RFC-konform und machte mit Clients Probleme.
1025 - an User wird nun immer ein "komplettes" Prefix (mit Host-Mask) ver-
1026 schickt, Server bekommen nach wie vor kurze: das "Original" hat bei
1027 bestimmten Befehlen (PRIVMSG) ansonsten evtl. Probleme ...
1028 - NAMES korrigiert und vollstaendig implementiert.
1029 - SQUIT wird auf jeden Fall geforwarded, zudem besseres Logging.
1030 - Ist ein Nick bei der User-Registrierung bereits belegt, nimmt der
1031 Server nun korrekt weitere NICK-Befehle an und verwendet diese.
1032 - PRIVMSG beachtet nun die Channel-Modes "n" und "m".
1033 - AWAY implementiert. PRIVMSG, MODE, USERHOST und WHOIS angepasst.
1034 - der ngIRCd unterstuetzt nun Channel-Topics (TOPIC-Befehl).
1035 - ausgehende Server-Verbindungen werden nun asyncron connectiert und
1036 blockieren nicht mehr den ganzen Server, wenn die Gegenseite nicht
1037 erreicht werden kann (bis zum Timeout konnten Minuten vergehen!).
1038 - Wert der Konfigurations-Variable "ConnectRetry" wird besser beachtet.
1039 - Channel- und Nicknames werden nun ordentlich validiert.
1041 ngIRCd 0.2.1, 17.02.2002
1043 - NICK korrigiert: es werden nun auch alle "betroffenen" User informiert.
1044 - configure-Script erweitert, u.a. bessere Anpassung an BeOS: dort wird
1045 nun die "libbe" zum ngIRCd gelinkt, somit funktioniert auch syslog.
1046 - Fehlerhafte bzw. noch nicht verstandene Modes werden nun ausfuehrlicher
1047 an den Client geliefert.
1049 ngIRCd 0.2.0, 15.02.2002
1051 - Nicknames und Channel-Namen werden etwas besser auf Gueltigkeit ueber-
1052 prueft; ist aber nach wie vor noch nicht ausreichend.
1053 - NJOINS von Servern wurden nicht an andere Server weitergeleitet.
1054 - Begonnen Channel-Modes und User-Channel-Modes zu implementieren: der
1055 Server versteht an User-Modes o und v, beachtet letzteres allerdings
1056 noch nirgends. Bekannte (aber nicht beachtete!) Channel-Modes sind
1057 bisher a, m, n, p, q, s und t. Diese Modes werden von Usern ange-
1058 nommen, von anderen Servern werden auch unbekannte Modes uebernommen.
1059 - Benutzer von connectierenden Servern wurden nicht in den Channels ange-
1060 kuendigt, es wurden nur die internen Strukturen angepasst.
1061 - Nach dem Connect eines Users werden LUSERS-Informationen angezeigt.
1063 ngIRCd 0.1.0, 29.01.2002
1065 - User-Modes bei User-Registrierungen von andere Servern (NICK-Befehl)
1066 wurden falsch uebernommen. Zudem wurden die Modes falsch gekuerzt.
1067 - Server-Verbindungen werden nun nach dem Start erst nach einer kurzen
1068 Pause aufgebaut (zur Zeit drei Sekunden).
1069 - Hilfetext korrigiert: --help und --version waren vertauscht, die
1070 Option --sniffer wurde gar nicht erwaehnt.
1071 - FAQ.txt in doc/ begonnen.
1072 - der IRC-Sniffer wird nur noch aktiviert, wenn die Option auf der
1073 Kommandozeile angegeben wurde (bei entsprechend compiliertem Server).
1074 - Channels implementiert, bisher jedoch noch ohne Channel-Modes, d.h.
1075 es gibt keine Channel-Ops, kein Topic, kein "topic lock" etc. pp.
1076 Chatten in Channels ist aber natuerlich moeglich ;-)
1077 - neue Befehle fuer Channles: JOIN, PART und NJOIN.
1078 - durch die Channels einige Aenderungen an PRIVMSG, WHOIS, MODE etc.
1079 - neu connectierenden Servern werden nun Channels mit NJOIN angekuendigt.
1080 - Signal-Hander geaendert: die Fehlermeldung "interrupted system call"
1081 sollte so nicht mehr auftreten.
1082 - "spaeter" neu connectierende Server werden nun im Netz angekuendigt.
1083 - SERVER-Meldungen an andere Server sind nun korrekt sortiert.
1084 - Clients werden nun korrekt sowohl nur ueber den Nickname als auch die
1085 komplette "Host Mask" erkannt.
1087 ngIRCd 0.0.3, 16.01.2002
1089 - Server-Links vollstaendig implementiert: der ngIRCd kann nun auch
1090 "Sub-Server" haben, also sowohl als Leaf-Node als auch Hub in einem
1091 IRC-Netzwerk arbeiten.
1092 - MODE und NICK melden nun die Aenderungen an andere Server, ebenso
1093 die Befehle QUIT und SQUIT.
1094 - WHOIS wird nun immer an den "Original-Server" weitergeleitet.
1095 - Parses handhabt Leerzeichen zw. Parametern nun etwas "lockerer".
1096 - Status-Codes an den Server selber werden ignorier.
1097 - Log-Meldungen und Log-Level ueberarbeitet und korrigiert.
1098 - Kommandozeilen-Parser: Debug- und No-Daemon-Modus, Hilfe.
1099 - ngIRCd wandelt sich nun in einen Daemon (Hintergrundprozess) um.
1100 - WHOIS korrigiert: Anfrage wurde u.U. an User geforwarded anstatt vom
1101 Server beantwortet zu werden.
1102 - neue Befehle: LUSERS, LINKS
1103 - Client-Modes von Remote-Servern wurden nicht korrekt uerbernommen.
1105 ngIRCd 0.0.2, 06.01.2002
1107 - Struktur der Konfigurationsdatei geaendert: sie ist nun "Samba like",
1108 d.h. sie besteht aus Abschnitten (siehe "doc/sample-ngircd.conf").
1109 - Es koennen mehrere IRC-Server-Opertatoren konfiguriert werden.
1110 - Zombies der Resolver-Prozesse werden nun ordentlich "getoetet".
1111 - NICK kann nun die Gross- und Kleinschreibung eines Nicks aendern.
1112 - ein Server-Passwort ist nun konfigurierbar.
1113 - neue Befehle: ERROR, SERVER, NJOIN (nur als "Fake"), SQUIT.
1114 - Asyncroner Resolver Hostname->IP implementiert.
1115 - Server-Links teilweise implementiert: bisher kann der ngIRCd jedoch
1116 nur "leafed server" sein, d.h. keine "Client-Server" haben. Einige
1117 Befehle sind auch noch nicht (optimal) angepasst: PRIVMSG funktioniert
1118 aber bereits, ebenso wie WHOIS (letzterer wird immer an den Server,
1119 auf dem der User registriert ist, weitergegeben).
1120 - "arpa/inet.h" wird nur noch includiert, wenn vorhanden.
1121 - Fehler bei select() fuerhen nun zum Abbruch von ngIRCd, bisher landete
1122 der Server zumeist in einer Endlosschleife.
1123 - Logmeldungen und Level an vielen Stellen verbessert.
1124 - lokalen Usernamen wird nun ein "~" vorangestellt, da bisher noch keine
1125 Ident-Anfragen gemacht werden.
1127 ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
1129 - erste oeffentliche Version von ngIRCd als "public preview" :-)